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Benefits of Essential Oils
From hair loss to dry skin, to breakouts, it seems as if there is always an obstacle to being the best version of ourselves. There have been numerous ways to combat these problems from surgeries to lotion to medications, but there is a different substance that provides the same amount of benefits as the aforementioned products: essential oils. Real Full Article
The NBA: Giving More Than Just Entertainment
If you're an athlete, your skills, drive, and work ethic, not nepotism or insider connections, should define your career path. As a result, you can succeed no matter where you come from. Clint Dempsey grew up in a trailer park in South Texas, where he used to play soccer alongside migrant youngsters from Mexico. With a teen mother and no father, LeBron James shuffled between apartments in Akron's toughest areas as a child. Michael Oher, star of The Blind Side, was in and out of foster homes since he was seven years old, eventually ending up on the streets of Memphis. Real Full Article
The Art of Aromatherapy
Aromatherapy, often known as essential oils therapy, is the practice of treating disease with the aroma-producing oils (essential oils) produced by plants. Flowers, leaves, stalks, bark, rind, and roots of plants are used to extract essential oils. The oils are combined with another material (oil, alcohol, or lotion), then applied to the skin, sprayed into the air, or inhaled. Read Full Article
The NBA: Giving More Than Just Entertainment
If you're an athlete, your skills, drive, and work ethic, not nepotism or insider connections, should define your career path. As a result, you can succeed no matter where you come from. Clint Dempsey grew up in a trailer park in South Texas, where he used to play soccer alongside migrant youngsters from Mexico. With a teen mother and no father, LeBron James shuffled between apartments in Akron's toughest areas as a child. Michael Oher, star of The Blind Side, was in and out of foster homes since he was seven years old, eventually ending up on the streets of Memphis.
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Benefits of Yoga
By Noelle Maticke
Yoga has been deemed spiritually and physically fruitful by many, spanning the East and, only recently, the West. Its benefits have been covering the West with a newfound dusting of positivity and peace, along with many physical and mental benefits for the body. Shirin Mehdi states in her article, “What Is Yoga And What Are Its Benefits”, that “within the last few decades, there has been an upsurge in the popularity of yoga. Not only has research proved the many benefits of yoga, but medical professionals and celebrities are also adopting and recommending this incredible practice.” (Mehdi) Read Full Article
Yoga has been deemed spiritually and physically fruitful by many, spanning the East and, only recently, the West. Its benefits have been covering the West with a newfound dusting of positivity and peace, along with many physical and mental benefits for the body. Shirin Mehdi states in her article, “What Is Yoga And What Are Its Benefits”, that “within the last few decades, there has been an upsurge in the popularity of yoga. Not only has research proved the many benefits of yoga, but medical professionals and celebrities are also adopting and recommending this incredible practice.” (Mehdi) Read Full Article
Does The Media Empower White Supremacists and Other Modern Protesters?
By Rudy Malcom
The second Unite the Right rally, organized by American white supremacist and neo-Nazi Jason Kessler, was held in Washington, D.C., on August 12, 2018, to mark the first anniversary of its predecessor in Charlottesville, Virginia, which Kessler arranged with white identitarian Richard B. Spencer. That first Unite the Rights rally, which killed advocate Heather Heyer and injured 35 fellow counter-protestors, was meant to oppose the removal of Confederate monuments and, according to Former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke, “fulfill the promises of Donald Trump” to “take our country back.” Duke, who believes that not just the President — who, failing to specifically denounce white supremacists, blamed “both sides” for the violence in Charlottesville — but that “most Americans embrace” the majority of the causes he has advocated, was scheduled to the speak at the Unite the Right 2 rally. Read Full Article
Are Light-Skinned Jews “White Passing” or “Functionally White,” and Who Are Jews of Color?
By Rudy Malcom
“Let’s start with that phrase, black Jews. When is the last time you heard someone refer[r]ed to as a ‘white Jew’?” asked Tamar Manasseh, the founder and president of Mothers Against Senseless Killings, in an article she wrote this January for The Forward, a magazine for Jewish Americans. “I can tell you the last time I did — it was never. And yet the phrase ‘black Jew’ has followed me around my entire life.” Read Full Article
Blunts: Bad Choices and Your Body (Part 1)
By Eric "Dr Dread" Boatner
This article was first published in 2007. Dr. Dread explores the use of "blunts" in our community and provides "Spiritual Laws for the Hood" Read Full Article
Coconut Oil Uses and Benefits
By Laura Ng
There are literally hundreds of uses and benefits of coconut oil. Check out the uses and benefits!
Building Muscles the Vegetarian Way
By Arati Shah
We hear a lot of top athletes around the world following a vegetarian or a vegan diet...people are becoming aware that a balanced diet based on plant based proteins does assist in the muscular development Read More